The Central Council for Education, an advisory body for the education minister, has submitted a report calling for upgrading moral education to an official school subject. The education ministry will ...

Given the strong public endorsement of moral education, one might expect it to dominate the educational agenda. Why doesn’t it? Given the strong public endorsement of moral education, one might expect ...

Moral education involves imparting children with ethical and moral principles, which are crucial for their overall development. It allows children to understand how to make reliable decisions and lead ...

To impose the rules, or to elicit the behavior? I find something jarring about the following scenario: A child or children commit an indiscretion—squabbling in the lunch room, ignoring a substitute ...

Students often know the right thing to do. How can schools help them to do it? The numbers are in and they don't look good." That was the assessment of the Josephson Institute of Ethics last October, ...

On the basis of the Central Council of Education's October report, the education ministry has revised the course of study at elementary and junior high schools to introduce moral education as an ...

“When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts,” said the world-renown Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. If you consider that children spend more time at school than ...

“Dotoku,” or moral education, is a tough subject to teach at school. The purpose is to “nurture morality that will form the basis of living a better life,” according to the education ministry’s ...

The Education Ministry has released guidelines to make moral education a special subject in schools by fiscal 2018. Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura says the goal of the guidelines is to encourage ...

I’ve always liked the TV character Ted Lasso’s definition of moral education. Being a soccer coach, he said, is “about helping these young fellas be the best versions of themselves on and off the ...